A Former Country Girl Catches Fire In 'The Love Object'
When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that...
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Book Review: 'The New World'
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Two to make a marriage and two to make a novel about a marriage. Reviewer Alan Cheuse has just picked up the...
View Article'Black Snow' Is A Lyrical Landscape Of Hope And Menace
Former Dublin newsman Paul Lynch made his debut as a novelist a few years ago with a book called Red Sky in Morning, set in mid-19th century County Donegal, where a rage-driven farmer has committed a...
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Book Review: 'Lifted By The Great Nothing,' Karim Dimechkie
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Sometimes a book grips you from the moment you read the title. That's what happened when reviewer Alan Cheuse...
View ArticleA 'Pinch' Of Magic Seasons This Half-Fantastical Neighborhood History
You may have read about an imaginary Southern piece of turf where the past presses on the present with such force that characters find themselves transformed with the pressure of it, where the...
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Book Review: 'The Black Snow,' Paul Lynch
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A lot of us have been there. You read a terrific first book from a writer and wait eagerly and nervously for...
View Article'Mazie' Pays Homage To A Real-Life Saint Of The Streets
The Mazie of Jami Attenberg's new novel is Mazie Phillips Gordon — an actual New Yorker. Though born in Boston just at the end of the 19th century, she moved to New York City at the age of ten to live...
View Article'Meteor' Is A Fiery Ride Through American History
Only last year, New Jersey writer Norman Lock brought out The Boy in His Winter, his time-travel version of Huck and Jim's passage along a great American river, and the river of time. In his new novel,...
View Article'The Cartel' Is A True Crime Adventure With A Killer Protagonist
The dedication of Don Winslow's novel The Cartel is nearly two pages long: a list of journalists who were either murdered or "disappeared" in Mexico between 2004 and 2012 — the period covered in this...
View Article'Aurora' Journeys In A New Direction
Veteran California science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson grounds his new novel squarely in a recognizable convention: the generation ship. In this case, it's a 26th century starship sent from...
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